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12Pathologien des Sozialen: die Aufgaben der Sozialphilosophie (edited book)Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1994.
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194The moral and political status of childrenPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 490-492. 2004.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education
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Rosen, M.-On Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness and the Theory of IdeologyPhilosophical Books 38 276-278. 1997.
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204Child Abuse: parental rights and the interests of the childJournal of Applied Philosophy 7 (2): 183-194. 1990.I criticise the ‘liberal’view of the proper relationship between the family and State, namely that, although the interests of the child should be paramount, parents are entitled to rights of both privacy and autonomy which should be abrogated only when the child suffers a specifiable harm. I argue that the right to bear children is not absolute, and that it only grounds a right to rear upon an objectionable proprietarian picture of the child as owned by its producer. If natural parents have any …Read more
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1Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge; Explaining Political Disagreement (review)Radical Philosophy 74. 1995.
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The Erosion of Childhood, Child Oppression in Britain 1860-1918 (review)Radical Philosophy 62. 1992.
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18Liberalism and the Defence of Political ConstructivismContemporary Political Theory 3 (1): 115-117. 2004.
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Constitutionalism and Democracy; Debating the Constitution; Associative Democracy; Common Sense: A New Constitution for Britain (review)Radical Philosophy 71. 1995.
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15Whose body is it anyway|[quest]| Justice and the integrity of the personContemporary Political Theory 9 (3): 345. 2010.
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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, eds, Cultural Pluralism and Moral KnowledgeRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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69. JUSTICE David ArchardIn Guillaume de Stexhe & Johan Verstraeten (eds.), Matter of breath: foundations for professional ethics, Peeters. pp. 3--147. 2000.
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10Philosophy and PluralismCambridge University Press. 1996.We inhabit a world of differences - cultural, religious, moral, philosophical. The question that preoccupies the contributors to this volume is whether the fact of difference - plurality - inevitably leads to the conclusion that there cannot be a single truth, even in moral matters. As befits a volume on pluralism, it brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills and attitudes. The implications of plurality are examined with regard to religion, …Read more
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45The morality of embryo use - by Louis M. GueninJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2): 212-214. 2009.No Abstract
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135Dirty Hands and the Complicity of the Democratic PublicEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4): 777-790. 2013.The alleged problem of the dirty hands of politicians has been much discussed since Michael Walzer’s original piece (Walzer 1974). The discussion has concerned the precise nature of the problem or sought to dissolve the apparent paradox. However there has been little discussion of the putative complicity, and thus also dirtying of hands, of a democratic public that authorizes politicians to act in its name. This article outlines the sense in which politicians do get dirty hands and the degree to…Read more
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340Insults, Free Speech and OffensivenessJournal of Applied Philosophy 31 (2): 127-141. 2013.This article examines what is wrong with some expressive acts, ‘insults’. Their putative wrongfulness is distinguished from the causing of indirect harms, aggregated harms, contextual harms, and damaging misrepresentations. The article clarifies what insults are, making use of work by Neu and Austin, and argues that their wrongfulness cannot lie in the hurt that is caused to those at whom such acts are directed. Rather it must lie in what they seek to do, namely to denigrate the other. The causi…Read more
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317Sexual consent (review)In Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. pp. 643-644. 2018.
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51Rights, Moral Values and Natural Facts: a reply to Mary Midgley on the problem of child-abuseJournal of Applied Philosophy 9 (1): 99-104. 1992.Mary Midgley asserts that my argument concerning the problem of child-abuse was inappropriately framed in the language of rights, and neglected certain pertinent natural facts. I defend the view that the use of rights-talk was both apposite and did not misrepresent the moral problem in question. I assess the status and character of the natural facts Midgley adduces in criticism of my case, concluding that they do not obviously establish the conclusions she believes they do. Finally I briefly res…Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty